We explore how to design and deploy scalable solutions to pressing problems in the Global South, through autonomous systems that conduct economics research.
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Yrjö Jahnsson Award 2025
David Yanagizawa-Drott has won the Yrjö Jahnsson Award 2025 for his work on political economy and the media.
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AI in Recruitment: Evidence, Skill Matching & Workforce Productivity
India AI Impact Summit 2026
Leadership
Core Team
Research Staff
Céline Aeschbacher
Predoctoral Fellow
Linen Yu
Predoctoral Fellow
Bohan Bai
Predoctoral Fellow
PhD Students
Alumni
Giuliano Ripari
Research Assistant
Navid Samadi
Master Student
Marco Caporaletti
Master Student
Jonas Esterer
Master Student
Nils Rütten
Bachelor Student
Research
Work in Progress
Automation with Generative AI? Evidence from a Teacher Hiring Pipeline
with K. Awuah, U. Krenk
Is Social Learning Gendered?
with K. Awuah, S. Helmke, R. Hernández, U. Krenk, S. Rabino, D. Santos Cárdenas
In progress
How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
with L. Bursztyn, A. Cappelen, B. Tungodden, A. Voena
Where We Work
Zurich
Switzerland
Main Office
Accra
Ghana
Field Office
Nairobi
Kenya
Field Research Ongoing
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Field Research Ongoing
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